Grill pizza stone

In an effort to make the Redneck Pizza Oven a more repeatable experiment, I've been looking for a pizza stone designed for use on the grill. Then Ames bought me this one from Weber as a gift. I gave it a whirl yesterday.

The pies made on the stone bubbled nicely and looked actually rather picturesque:

From Grill Pizza Stone

From Grill Pizza Stone

But when we cut them, we realized the bottoms were charred to almost inedible:

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It appears we've been able to get the stone good and hot, but the air above it is too cool. We had this problem last time, and ended up shovelling live coals around the perimeter of the stone to get that temperature up:

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So it seems we need to make some arrangement like that.


The stone itself appears to be exactly what I was looking for: it handled the heat just fine, although I was half-afraid it would crack. It's marketed specifically for use on a grill, and I read the directions very carefully: I used it exactly in accordance with the directions in the box.

It doesn't look nearly so picturesque now that the stone's been a little charred and the metal's been a little blued, but I have to say it's extremely promising. I think this is going to become a centerpiece of our future pizza explorations.

From Grill Pizza Stone

From Grill Pizza Stone